The Young Conservative’s Field Guide: Facts, Charts and Figures Teaches Us How to “Smash” “Ideals” with “Facts”

“Looking for a calm, reasoned, yet powerful alternative to the liberal vs. conservative political arguments?” read an e-mail we found forwarded to our inbox. In fact, yes, we were! It continued: “Look out Liberals, you may never win another debate again ... CONSERVATIVE 'HANDBOOK' SMASHES EVERY LIBERAL IDEAL WITH SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY ... FACTS!” Yes we can! This thing, The Young Conservative’s Field Guide: Facts, Charts and Figures, is indeed something extraordinary. But what are these facts of which you speak, co-authors Brenton Stransky and Andrew Foy, M.D.? And what about the helpless liberal who finds his facts smashed? With what does he smash back? With this, of course! Presenting The Young VF Daily Reader’s Field Guide: Facts, Charts and Figures with Which to Smash Previous Counterexamples of Facts, Charts and Figures. From the aforementioned press release: “President Obama believes, as he has stated, ‘spreading the wealth around’ is good for the country. FACT: The Founding Fathers went to great lengths in the Constitution, as Thomas Jefferson said, ‘to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.’”

Smash back with our counter-fact! FACT: Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Bam!

From the aforementioned press release: Liberals say that the “wealthy evade paying their fair share of taxes, which isn’t fair. FACT: As the IRS itself reports, the top 1% of wealthiest Americans pay 40% of the total income taxes collected.”

Smash back with our counter-fact! FACT: “Unlike President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts, which went to the wealthiest 2.2%, President Obama’s tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit working and middle class families—in fact, 95% of all Americans.” Also, life isn’t fair. Pow!

From the aforementioned press release: “Al Gore’s movie posits that man-made CO2 has caused global warming and showed the correlation between CO2 and climate change over 400,000 years. FACT: Man has only been producing large amounts of carbon for roughly 100 years.”

Smash back with our counter-fact! FACT: “While carbon dioxide is naturally present in the atmosphere, levels remained relatively flat until industrialization: after varying within 10% for the 10,000 years before 1800, it has increased by 30% in the 200 years since.” Pulling for the continued survival of Earth isn’t a partisan issue. Boom!

Don’t be fooled by flash like “a unique PowerPoint style compilation of clear information.” And don’t just calmly listen to and engage with information that suggests mostly everything is either completely wrong or completely right, like children do! Smash all of this, with facts!